Letter: Rockford, take heed on backyard chickens

I recently read that Rockford is considering allowing people to raise chickens within the city limits. Before they proceed maybe they should check out the chicken situation in Silvis.

Silvis recently adopted an ordinance allowing people to have three chickens. At the last council meeting, someone suggested that the ordinance be amended to allow people to own as many as 10 chickens. Who knows how high the number will rise? It’s bound to rise higher than a chicken can fly since, as we all know, chickens can’t fly.

Anyway, if Rockford decides to go the chicken route, in time, that old “Why did the chicken cross the road?” bit might be changed to “Why did the chicken cross the road to Rockford?”

And one answer might be, “So she could hang with herds and hoards and flocks and gaggles of her homies.”

Sign me someone who has raised a ruckus from time to time but never raised a single chicken.